Even consciousness could reveal its secrets someday with this realistic simulation, researchers hope. It will not only ...

Our thoughts are specified by our knowledge and plans, yet our cognition can also be fast and flexible in handling new ...

Neuroscientists have been trying to understand how the human brain supports numerous advanced capabilities for centuries. The ...

The cerebellum (which is Latin for ‘little brain’) is the area of the brain in charge of fine motor coordination and balance, and it keeps our movements smooth and stable by predicting what our next ...

When we watch someone move, get injured, or express emotion, our brain doesn’t just see it—it partially feels it. Researchers ...

Attention disorders such as ADHD arise when the brain struggles to separate important signals from irrelevant noise. At any ...

A Japanese research team has successfully reproduced the human neural circuit in vitro using multi-region miniature organs ...

Language is more strongly controlled by the left half of the brain, while other functions are more strongly controlled by the ...

The cerebral cortex is the largest part of a mammal's brain, and by some measures the most important. In humans in particular, it's where most things happen-like perception, thinking, memory storage ...